Cases in Bioethics Selections from the Hastings Center Report,9780312152697

Cases in Bioethics Selections from the Hastings Center Report

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780312152697
ISBN10: 0312152698
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Cases in Bioethics, Third Edition, contains 59 cases, each of which presents a difficult question that regularly confronts medical practitioners. Each case is discussed by two or three ethicists, physicians, or hospital administrators, placing students in the thick of each difficult situation.

Table of Contents

Topical Table of Contents
v
Alternate Topical Table of Contents
xi
Preface xv
Contributors xviii
Part One: Health Care Professionals' Responsibilities and Patients' Rights 1(60)
Introduction
1(2)
Professional Conduct
3(21)
Informed Consent
24(19)
Privacy and Confidentiality
43(16)
Selected Bibliography
59(2)
Part Two: Reproductive Rights and Technologies 61(26)
Introduction
61(1)
Reproductive Rights
62(16)
Abortion
78(7)
Selected Bibliography
85(2)
Part Three: Death and Dying 87(56)
Introduction
87(2)
Decisions about Death
89(21)
Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia
110(30)
Selected Bibliography
140(3)
Part Four: Research with Living Subjects 143(38)
Introduction
143(2)
Consent to Research
145(15)
Selection of Subjects and Protection of Their Welfare
160(18)
Selected Bibliography
178(3)
Part Five: Decisionmaking Capacity 181(36)
Introduction
181(2)
Involuntary Treatment
183(17)
Decisions on Behalf of the Incompetent
200(15)
Selected Bibliography
215(2)
Part Six: Allocation and Health Care Policy 217(74)
Introduction
217(2)
Allocation of Scarce Resources
219(34)
Organ Procurement and Transplantation
253(16)
Health Care Policy
269(21)
Selected Bibliography
290(1)
Glossary 291

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